Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

I know one Italian guy. I can't understand a word he says. He have to sign to converse.

The associate atty. has to extract pages from PDFs and email them to me and our boss. He has Acrobat Pro on his computer, but he still prints the pages, walks back to the printer, scans them, then emails them to us. Besides being a silly and needless waste of time, the quality of the document is reduced and it winds up with a meaningless name like KMPT93934941343.

same old story as always, but i wanted to vent

Chicago has a dire Polish/Italian imbalance. One thing that gets me whenever I've been in NYC is how many stunningly gorgeous probably-Italian people - just regular working folks - there are just walking around amongst the rest of us. I don't recall as much Italian being spoken, or Italian accent as there is Polish here, but I would really prefer the prettiness of Italian to the crackling static-y sound of Polish.

This is some weird fetishization here, man.

Polish is a gorgeous language. idk whether Chicago Polish has a particular accent.

Yeh, re-reading that, I either didn't express myself well or I was just fetishizing Italians. I wasn't saying I think the Polish were ugly though. Only that the language and Polish accent (when speaking English) sound less as pleasant than Italian (and the other Romance languages and English).

Probably time to shut up.

You should do stand up comedy.

Haaaa

Come now, jg, surely you're inured to any chill or discomfort after 20 years of putting your own gas in the car during UP winters.

You can't pump your own gas in Oregon, so you always have to wait around until the attendant gets to you and it always takes like twice as long as just doing it yourself. I don't want to wait in the car - the pump is right there, I'm familiar with the technology and I could do it half the time myself. And yet.

Chicago has a dire Polish/Italian imbalance. One thing that gets me whenever I've been in NYC is how many stunningly gorgeous probably-Italian people - just regular working folks - there are just walking around amongst the rest of us. I don't recall as much Italian being spoken, or Italian accent as there is Polish here, but I would really prefer the prettiness of Italian to the crackling static-y sound of Polish.

Go to Harlem Avenue.

Has iTunes been mentioned on this thread yet? This morning all the "The ... " bands on my iPod are now filed under T.

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I stopped at a New Jersey gas station once and was quite surprised to be surrounded by dudes in white jackets. Oregon would drive me crazy.

I worked at a (self-service Kwik-w-mart deal) gas station when I was in college and I was forever having to go out to the pumps and show people from NJ how to pump their gas.

that makes me so irrationally angry that i always make sure to have enough gas before entering new jersey

I got yelled at in NJ a couple years ago because I didn't know about this stupid law and started trying to pump my own. Some man came running out of the store shouting at me. It was all very confusing and annoying.

xpost The Italian I hear up and down Harlem is not the pretty poetry Italian, fwiw.

It really bugs me when the trash guy leaves our trash bin right in the middle of our driveway. Then I have to either stop in the middle of the street to move it, or drive around the block and park just to get into our garage. I'm not sure that counts as innocuous, though, as it causes me to alter my behavior.

that makes me so irrationally angry that i always make sure to have enough gas before entering new jersey

I actually try to wait until NJ to fill up. For some reason, even though it's full-serve, it's the cheapest gas in the northeast (usually by a significant amount).

And now he's abbreviating plurals weird: Exh.s and No.s instead of Exhs. and Nos. (for Exhibits and Numbers).

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but that's not how abbreviation ever has worked, right??

Sorry, jg--I confused your post upthread with its opposite and thought you were saying you PREFERRED full-srvc, which seemed super out of character.

Jesse: Maybe he's thinking of the period as an apostrophe, where it represents the missing letters?

I've never seem "exhibit" abbreviated as "exh" (I see Ex. and PX or DX/RX (defendant or respondent, depending).

haha in related bizarre apostrophe misuse news, i saw the following today:

we sell hot food and soup until "4.30"

the food was in fact very nice (and lots of it) so i am not angry at all

If that LOLyer is writing prose, he should just write out "numbers" and "exhibits." Were he in my legal writing student, we would have a one on one talk after class about this.

Wait if he were in my legal writing student, I'd get the dean involved.

Other Unknown Oregon Laws
• Ketchup can only be dispensed from behind the counter at restaurants.
• Library books may only be checked out via mail.
• Major appliances such as refrigerators or washing machines may only be installed by a licensed and bonded contractor.

Are those enforced?

And all of the attorneys have changed their settings on Word so that Ctrl+S no longer means Save and Ctrl+P no longer means Print. Instead they Ctrl+S = § and Ctrl+P = ¶. I have to work on documents on their computers, and I have a compulsion to save a document very frequently, so every single every time I use their computers, the document I'm working on is full of random § marks.

xps - Jenny, "Exh." is a really common abbreviation in work that crosses my desk. I remember seeing "PX" and "DX" in one case in 2008 (in US Court in the Southern District of IA), but otherwise it's "Exh." in state and federal cases and in agencies.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but that is what is commonly in use.

I'm referring to use of "Exh." in cites at the end of sentences, e.g. Blah blah blah. (Exh. A, Deposition of Yoyo Mama, P. 8).

Rather, "Dep. of"

Yes, WmC. These laws are enforced by the Oregon State Bureau of Codes & Bylaws.

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Its funding is derived directly from the state's sales tax on retail goods.

That library book law is fucking bizarre. How does that even work?

I believe you, Jesse. You see a much wider variety of this stuff than I do, and there are definitely internal traditions in our specific abbreviations. I am compelled to point out that the Bluebook advises "Ex." but I'm guessing if you check out section B7 in the Bluepages you'll find you don't see a lot of Bluebook compliant court/litigation doc citations in general.

And to be topical: non-Bluebook compliant legal citations in formal legal writing.

The library thing: Works a lot like the old catalogue stores run by JC Penny or Sears Roebuck. Now though, you can go to a website like this and make your selection.

Like, you can't go into a library and browse and walk out with books??? That's almost unfathomable to me.

Also Jesse the remapping of ctrl-s would make me lose my shit. I dare you to try and teach them alt-0167 for §.

"Ex." makes more sense than "Exh." though I guess "ex." stands for "example" usually.

Re the Blue Book, remember that I've worked at this firm for over 4 years and we never had a Blue Book until you gave me your outdated one. The only reason we needed that one was b/c we had a big case in state court, which is unfamiliar to most of our attorneys, and our judge's standing order said to refer to the Blue Book for citation format. Some other judges' orders specify form of documents filed, including formatting of citations.

The OR library book thing made me IA.

Gah, yes! re Ctrl+S. It's like if they said, You know what, we're going to nod for "no" and shake our heads for "yes."

My boss was in her office when I was using her computer and I feigned surprise when Ctrl+P made a paragraph symbol. She was SO PROUD of herself! She was beaming b/c she had "hacked" her computer ;__; I didn't have the heart to bring her down to earth.

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Is my link not showing up?

Lace up boots with zips up the inside make me irrationally angry.

AND THEN SOME

They look stupid as fuck, but I find them tempting b/c I really, really like the functionality of slip-on shoes.

Coffee shops with no goddamn parking.

Not innocuous but has now happened THREE TIMES recently: cafes/restaurants that are planning unusual opening hours for Christmas etc BUT DON'T PUT THEM ON THEIR WEBSITE. I checked a few places' opening hours online before heading out, knowing the hours could be screwy at the moment, and still they are closed with no mention on the website!

People who bring room temperature white wine to a dinner/wine tasting, and open it (or expect it to be opened) without any chilling. Or hosts who serve the wine thusly. (disgusting savages!)

website embedded audio players with no volume control.

yah that infuriates me.

relatedly, that my dab's lowest volume setting before "mute" is not actually that low.

website embedded audio players with no volume control.

People leaving the bath taps set to "shower" so when you turn the water on, you get soaked and so does the floor.

People moving things from where you (I) left them.

Insanely innocuous but annoying as hell:

1. Product instructions that congratulate you 'Congratulations on your purchase of the Eureka Lightspeed 300!' WTF? would Thank you for your purchase be a little more appropriate?

2. The two vertical strings on window blinds that pull the whole blind up and down. except they dont. i understand their use as they thread vertically 1/3 in from each side of the blind itself but why not merge those strings in the mechanics at the top? all that adjusting to get the blind perfectly level or are some people really like 'Hmm i think ill just raise the left side of the blind today.' INSANITY!

schools with really dysfunctional, non-informative, non-integrative websites, especially when the registration interface doesn't work with chrome.